Urinary-Tract Infections in Schoolchildren

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Abstract
THE quantitative enumeration of bacteria in the urine has proved to be a useful procedure in the diagnosis of infections of the urinary tract in hospital and office practice1 2 3 4 5 6 and is being employed as an epidemiologic tool in investigations of the distribution of these infections in relatively asymptomatic populations.7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Most of the data accumulated thus far, with a few exceptions,9 , 11 , 14 15 16 have been obtained from studies of hospital and clinic patients and, although useful, may not accurately reflect the prevalence or severity of urinary-tract infections in the general population.In 1960 a pilot study of the prevalence of urinary-tract infections among . . .